Global healthcare trends are driving an increase in data and a need for personalized medicine approaches. These include rising healthcare costs as populations age, with the average global age expected to rise from 10% to 21% over 60 by 2050. Next generation sequencing is driving down costs, enabling large amounts of genomic and other health data to be collected. This presents big data challenges to manage and analyze the data to enable personalized medicine approaches by 2020. Intel is working on solutions across the hardware and software stack to help with big healthcare data challenges including high performance computing, optimized software frameworks, data analytics methods, and use case examples like sequencing appliances.